Tool for removing bottle-caps



v c. s. HALL. TOOL FOR REMOVING BOTTLE CAPS- I APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19, I919. 1,355,330.

Patented Oct; 12,1920.

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Uhll'l'iED FATEENT QF FICE.

CHARLES S. HALL, OF NEW'ARK, NEVT JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T TEE VVHITEI-IEAD & HOAG COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY,

A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TOOL FOR REMGVING- BOTTLE-CH3.

Application filed June 19, 1919.

T 0 all whom it may CON/067%.

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. HALL, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and resident of Newark, in the county of Essex, in the State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tools for Removing Bottle-Caps, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to tools in which the main body is made in one piece having one end provided with means for performing some useful work, such as lGlIlOVlllg the caps of milk and similar bottles, while the other end is substantially flat and equipped with a suitable button which serves the double purpose of a handle and for receiving advertising or other informative matter.

The main object is to provide the flat handle portion of the main body with an en largement in the form of a button, which may be readily and permanently secured to opposite faces thereof to facilitate the manipulation of the tool, and, at the same time, to afford means for the display of advertising or other informative matter, without in any way interfering with the free application of the working end of the tool to lts work. Another object is to make tie button and adjacent portion of the main body of the handle circular and of substantially the same diameter greater than the width of the remaining portions of said main body so that they may be conveniently grasped 1n the hand when applying the tool to the work.

()ther objects and uses relating to specific parts of my invention will be brought out in the following description:

In the drawings,

Figure l is a perspective view of my 1m proved tool for opening milk bottles.

Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged longitudinal and transverse sectional views taken respectively on lines 22 and 3-3 Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the de tached plate ready to receive the button sections. 7

Fig. is a perspective View of one of the sheet metal disks of one of the button sections.

As illustrated, the tool comprises a relatively thin fiat metal plate 1 constitu ing what may be termed the mam body hav- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920; Serial No. 305,216.

ing its working end provided with a prong for engaging and removing a bottle cap and its other end enlarged at b to form a substantially flat circular handle portion which is provided with two sets of slots or apertures -2- and 2 arranged in equally spaced relation about a common axis and equal distances from said axis, those of each set being disposed at substantially right angles to those of the other set 65,

and are elongated in lines parallel with. each other so that those of one pair extend 1n a direction at right angles to those of the other pair to permit the disks of either button section presently described to be applied to either set of slots or to either side of the supporting plate -l.

circular button of substantially the same diameter as that of the handle portion m constitutes an additional handle portlon and comprises a pair of similar sheet metal disks 3 and 3, (which in this instance are circular and flat) each disk being provided with a pair of diametrically opposite integral clenche prongs 4rpartially cut from the main body of the disk and struck up to one side thereof, and spaced apart a distance substantially equal to the distance between the centers of either pair of slots 2 or 2 in the plate 1 so that the prongs of one disk may be passed through one set of slots from one side of the plate while the prongs of the other disk may be passed through the remaining set of slots from the opposite side of the plate.

he free ends of the prongs of each disk are deflected at -5- in opposite directions away from each other so that when both' disks are applied to opposite sides of the plate 1 with their prongs 2- and 2 projecting through their respective slots, the laterally deflected portion 5- of the prongs of each disk will engage the inner face of the other disk, and when the two disks are firmly pressed together toward opposite faces of the plate 1-, the free ends of the prongs of each disk will be further deflected laterally by the opposite disk until the prongs of both disks'are firmly clenched against opposite faces of the plate 1, thereby positively locking said disks to the plate against displacement or movement relatively to each other or to the plate, it being understood that the slots 2 and 2 are of suflicient width to receive the slightly deflected ends and remaining portions of the prongs &.

This method of securing the disks -3- and 3' to the plate -1 is extremely simple and efficient in retaining them upon the plate they may be applied and may serve to receive advertising or other matter.

In the present construction, however, I prefer to cover the outer face and edge of each disk with layers -'6- and 7 preferably of paper and celluloid, respectively, the paper serving to receive printed matter while the celluloid covering may be transparent and serves to protect the matter against obliteration.

The edges of these layers 6 and 7 are preferably crimped over and around the edges of each disk so that their free edges lie at the inner side of the disk or between said disk and adjacent face of the plate -1-, this operation being usually performed before the disks are assembled upon the plate.

It is, therefore, disks 3 and 3 are applied to the opposite faces of the plate -1 and clenched thereto in the manner described, the free edges of the layers 6- and -7- printed 1 or other article to which handle portion evident that when the will be impinged between the disk and adjacent faces of the plate thus producing a smooth finish around the edges of the disks and additionally holding the free edges of the layers in operative engagement with their respective disks to form a circular which grasped in the hand to facilitate the manipulation of the tool upon the work, and, at the same time, permitting both faces of the button to be used for displaying advertising or other informative matter.

What I claim is:

A tool of the character described, comprising a metal platehaving a work engaging portion at one end and its other end provided with a substantially flat circular portion having apertures therethrough in combination with a button having fiat circular disks applied to opposite faces of the circular portion of the plate and provided with prongs passing through the openings and clenched against theplate.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 10th da of June, 1919.

C RLES S. HALL. Witnesses:

CHARLES W. Mnnomn, ROBERT H. THOMPSON.

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